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fordshire and became deeply interested in the geology of the 

 neighbourhood of Oxford. At this time he took advantage of 

 lectures to advanced students delivered by eminent professors 

 of the day in the university of his native town. 



At the age of twenty-two his first paper "On the Land and 

 Fresh Water Mollusca inhabiting the neighbourhood of Ox- 

 ford," was published by the Ashmolean Society, of which 

 society he was shortly after made an honorary member. In 

 1859 he was elected a Fellow of the Geological Societv of 

 London. Two years later, as the result of his study of fossils 

 of his own collecting, during a period of several years, near 

 Oxford, he published two palaeontological papers, one "On the 

 Invertebrate Fauna of the Lower Oolites," the other on the 

 fossils of the Coralline Oolites. These contributions established 

 his reputation as a palaeontologist, and served as an index to 

 what might be expected of him in the future. 



Coming to Canada and residing in Montreal he continued 

 zoological and palaeontological studies in a vastly enlarged field. 

 Between the years 1863 and 1875 whilst connected with the 

 Natural History Society of Montreal, besides publishing papers 

 on the fossils of the formations of the island of Montreal and 

 vicinity, he was the author of a number of valuable reports on 

 the results of deep-sea dredging operations conducted by him, 

 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the cost of which were defrayed 

 by the Dominion Government. 



It was, however, when he was appointed Palaeontologist 

 to the Geological Survey, in 1876, that his mental energy and 

 natural aptitude for palaeontological research found full scope. 

 He then had ample opportunity to prove himself a most worthy 

 successor to the distinguished scientist who preceded him in 

 office. That this opportunity was fully utilized is proved by 

 the long list of his official reports, and papers, contributed to 

 scientific journals, during the last thirty-three years of his 

 career. His volume of "Contributions to Canadian Palaeon- 

 tology," his monumental works on the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic 

 Fossils of Canada, and his splendid descriptions of the fossil 

 fishes of Quebec and New Brunswick would alone have earned 

 for him a world-wide reputation as a careful observer, a close 

 reasoner, and a lucid writer. Space admits only of a brief 

 reference to the pubHshed results of his studies of the recent 

 marine invertebrata of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the 

 Dominion. The wide scope of his palaeontological and zoological 

 writings can be fuUv realized only after reading through a list 

 of his many publications. These number nearly one hundred 



